One mum has embryos to give away - but there's a catch
One mum is giving away 25 embryos - but she has one condition.
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Natalie Lovett faced a lengthy struggle to conceive, eventually traveling from Australia (where she lives) to the US for fertility treatment. She purchased anonymous donor eggs and donor sperm and gave birth to a baby girl.
Her daughter Lexie is now 18 months old.
Natalie has 25 embryos left from her fertility treatment and was given a choice of what to do with them. She told ABC TV, "I have one perfect daughter and then I’m told I have another 25 embryos that I can either destroy, donate to science or give away. I could never destroy them so I decided to give them to other childless families."
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But the offer comes with one condition.
All those who receive the embryos and go on to have a baby, must agree to go to a yearly reunion with Lexie and her other siblings and to keep in touch on a private Facebook page.
Natalie also wants recipients to have a tertiary (i.e. university) education and to come from a family with no history of addiction.
With echoes of the cult clone series Orphan Black - where biological clone sisters raised independently meet up from all over the world - it's perhaps not surprising the plan has rasied some eyebrows. But Natalie's sister, Amanda Lovett-Jones, explained, "It’s hard for a lot of people to understand, and it’s definitely not a cult, but she would like Lexie to have an extended family."
And of course, any children born from the embryos would only be as similar as siblings - they will not be identical, nor will they share the same birthday.
So far she has given away three embryos and two of the women who received them are now pregnant.
